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M V Mamede

Publications and source records attributed to M V Mamede.

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PubMed1999

[The practice of breastfeeding in a group of Brazilian women: a movement of accommodation and resistance].

Actions to stimulate breastfeeding are directed to assist children's needs and do not contemplate woman in her specificities. The present study aimed at understanding the meanings women give to their experiences and demands in the practice of breastfeeding. 20 women that were experiencing breastfeeding for the first time were interviewed. Data analysis were based on the feminist theory. Authors found breast feeding as a feminine process socially determined. Women showed accommodation as they felt the act of breast feeding as donation, a sacrifice and dedication as well as resistance when they justified weaning affirming the lack of physiological capacity for breastfeeding.

Attitude to Health↗
PubMed1996

[Experiences of women in cesium brachytherapy].

The objective of the present study was to determine the main difficulties and problems experienced by patients submitted to sealed internal radiotherapy as well as to provide guidance for nurses to better perceive the difficulties experienced by the patients and act as an element of support while giving care. The problems and difficulties observed and reported by the patients were mainly related to the impositions of treatment, such as isolation, prohibition of visits, hospitalization, bed confinement, restriction of movements, use of the intracavity system, measures of radiological protection, use of a delay bladder tube, and limited personal hygiene. Fear related to treatment and anesthesia, partial or absent orientation and skin lesions were the complaints voiced by most of the patients in the present study. The role of the nurse is important in planning nursing care in sealed internal radiotherapy, especially when nurses understand the problems and difficulties experienced by women submitted to this treatment.

Adult↗
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[Building the meaning of disease recurrence: experience of women with breast cancer].

Regarding recurrence as a possibility in the lives of women with breast cancer, this work aimed at identifying how they construct the meaning of such possibility from their own existence. The study was based on the conceptions of symbolic interactionism and the content analysis of interviews with 12 mastectomized women was used. The possibility of recurrence was present in the lives of the women under study. It was configured by the uncertainty that they experienced and represented in the thematic units identified in their accounts when they stated to be "living with a stigmatizing disease", "experiencing a negative feeling" and "facing prejudice".

Breast Neoplasms↗
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[Women and health: their concerns].

This investigation is part of a transcultural research project on women and health, which has as its conceptual framework women's life experiences. This research is qualitative in nature, and the methodology utilized is a content analysis of the documented discourses of a group of lower class women in Ribeirão Preto (SP). The results demonstrate that for these women, health is much more than the absence of disease". Their health concerns are biological, interpersonal, social and economic in nature, and are based more upon their personal experiences and social perceptions than on the concept of health and disease. The importance of this research is its relevance for quality nursing care which takes into consideration the many aspects of being a woman.

Adolescent↗